Rosa Gulliver of TINYGMUSIC | February 28, 2025
The track, produced by Grimes, Liam Benayon, Slush Puppy, and Dylan Harrison, offers a sharp critique of the spectacle surrounding female conflict. Despite a culture that claims to promote "women supporting women," audiences still enjoy watching them undermine each other. Co-written by ADÉLA, the song is inspired by her personal experiences in challenging environments. With high-energy synths, vocoder harmonies, and youthful taunts, she addresses the situation: “Why you comin’ at me, baby? / Yell at the machine, girl.” Listen to “Machine Girl”
In the video also released today, a director sets ADÉLA against another dancer, played by actress Sofia Wylie (“Andi Mack,” “Marvel Rising,” “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series”), in a challenging and increasingly intense dance routine. The choreography was crafted by Miguel Zárate alongside ADÉLA, and the video was directed by Mitch deQuilettes (Daya, TOKiMONSTA), featuring an appearance by Grimes.
ADÉLA understands what it's like to be molded by the machine and to resist it. Growing up in Slovakia, she often felt out of place with her country's conservative values. Instead of letting others deter her childhood dream of becoming a pop star, she kept it private and focused her energy on years of intense ballet training. She turned professional at age 11. By 14, she had relocated to Vienna and London to join prestigious ballet academies, but after experiencing the industry's harsh, dehumanising standards, she left it completely.
In 2020, ADÉLA’s dream finally came within arm’s reach. She moved to Los Angeles to compete for a spot in HYBE x Geffen’s global girl group, a process chronicled by the Netflix series “Pop Star Academy: KATSEYE.” The experience led to her changing many aspects of herself in order to fit the group’s vision. Then, she was eliminated. “That was the worst year of my life,” she says of the aftermath. “Seriously. It sucked. I didn’t know who I was.” She took the time to experiment, make music and rediscover her identity. ADÉLA emerged from that period of reinvention sharper, hungrier and fully in control of her vision.
Teen Vogue and OUT chronicled her journey in feature stories while PAPER® praised the “raw vocals, clever storytelling and magnetic choreography” demonstrated on ADÉLA’s first two singles, “HOMEWRECKED” and “SUPERSCAR.” In less than a month, “HOMEWRECKED” amassed a million streams on Spotify.
“I want to create a world that's relatable on a human level,” ADÉLA says. “I want to talk about things that are maybe uncomfortable. That’s who I am also as a person: I’m super blunt and kind of clinical, in a sense. I want to encourage people to be themselves.”
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